What's the best venue of getting some assistance? (Addendum)

[John Lyon]

A bit more info:

Here's what I see each time it fails (switching to the log screen via
<alt+4>:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

mysql-common: conflicts: mysql-common-4.1 but 4.1.12-1ubunt3.1 is installed
mysql-common-4.1: conflicts: mysql-common but 4.0.24.10ubunt2 is to be
installed

I'm not an expert by a long shot, but that suggests to me that the package
installation process is trying to install/update with *older* packages the
*newer* packages already installed on the box.

John
Currently in Ubuntu Limbo